The division politically has been a nightmare here in the USA since Trump was elected President.

Hey, if anyone had told me that after being a hard line progressive liberal democrat my whole life that I would change parties and vote for Donald J. Trump, I would have said “your nuts!”

My first prediction that Trump was going to “take the prize” was in February of 2017 because I could sense that American’s were sick of being “victims.”

No, Trump is not perfect, but he is the best thing we have had in a long time. What did Trump do best? Shake up the thinking of popular culture because it took a “reality show TV star” to shake the nation awake.

Yes, we have some terrible problems here and like so many I want our troops brought home. Trump can’t do that because the U.S. Military is sort of like “Team America,” we are the world police.

Before you have a seizure or a heart attack with what I am writing here, I am writing these opinions based on being a can-do radio and music producer, not some victim who is sitting on the side of the road waiting for a handout.

For those of us who are so passionate about movies, there is no better place than Netflix. The service is so much a part of the American Culture in 2018 that it is an absolute “Phenomena.”

Why am I so stoked on Netflix? Why do I watch it? Why do I share the latest original programming with my friends and family?

Answer: There is a very unique way that Netflix produces their programming that sincerely reminds me of the Studio System in Hollywood from the early 1920’s until the late 1950’s.

Netflix Is A Real Part of American Culture in 2018.

Here is just a little piece of what Netflix says about their own culture:

We want employees to be great independent decision makers, and to only consult their manager when they are unsure of the right decision. The leader’s job at every level is to set clear context so that others have the right information to make generally great decisions.

We don’t buy into the lore of CEOs, or other senior leaders, who are so involved in the details that their product or service becomes amazing. The legend of Steve Jobs was that his micromanagement made the iPhone a great product. Others take it to new extremes, proudly calling themselves nano- managers. The heads of major networks and studios sometimes make many decisions in the creative process of their content. We do not emulate these top-down models because we believe we are most effective and innovative when employees throughout the company make and own decisions.

We strive to develop good decision-making muscle everywhere in our company. We pride ourselves on how few, not how many, decisions senior management makes. We don’t want hands-off management, though. Each leader’s role is to teach, to set context, and to be highly informed of what is happening. The only way to figure out how the context setting needs to improve is to explore a sample of all the details. But unlike the micro-manager, the goal of knowing those details is not to change certain small decisions, but to learn how to adjust context so more decisions are made well.

There are some minor exceptions to “context not control,” such as an urgent situation in which there is no time to think about proper context and principles, when a new team member hasn’t yet absorbed enough context to be confident, or when it’s recognized that the wrong person is in a decision-making role.

To give you further insight, I actually downloaded their current culture page as a pdf, you may want to consider downloading it and keeping in your resource file.

Over the next few years, I believe that we will look back at NetFlix & merely marvel at how much the company has sincerely incorporated a whole new system of content creation and management.Old Hollywood is gone, Boom!

Some additional articles to inspire you:

A former Netflix exec has a simple algorithm for figuring out whether you should leave your job:http://read.bi/2EiADU0

Bill Cooper only appeared one time on the Alex Jones Show one time. If you want to know what they talked about, I am placing the interview here so that you understand why I stopped listening to Alex Jones in 2013. (The interview is 45 Minutes, 38 Seconds long and is a real piece of history).

The audio below is 6 Minutes and 4 Seconds in length. It is worth your time to hear this little piece of history. It was originally recorded on September 26, 2001, before William Milton Cooper was killed in front of his home on November 6, 2001. We will never forget you, Mr. Cooper! (RIP).

Why do I want you to hear this? Like so many, I was a follower of Alex Jones, and after returning to California in 2013, after living in New Zealand for almost 6 years, I could never listen to him again. Let me know your thoughts on this as we are the remnants of those who came before us.

Environment – The harms to wildlife, particularly bees, butterflies and other pollinators

Energy – The huge energy consumption to produce and power a wireless Internet of Things

Brains and Humanity – The effects on our brains and humanity from humans increasingly inhabiting the cyber world

E-Waste – The astronomical e-waste that will be generated from connecting virtually every “thing” to the Internet

Conflict Minerals– 5G and the IoT will vastly grow our dependence on conflict minerals, which have brought about the death of close to 6 million people

Ethics — Ethical issues arising from the IoT. New human rights laws are being being considered; how should humans relate to robots and AI? The blurring of what was once a clear delineation between technology and humans

Finally some relief!

This was written two days ago and I have placed it here as a downloadable pdf in case it goes off line:

Please watch and listen to a great TEDx talk by Dr. Cal Newport sharing his views on why you need to: “Quit Social Media.”

Cal had more to say when he wrote his New York Times Article:

I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account.

At the moment, this makes me an outlier, but I think many more people should follow my lead and quit these services. There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.

This claim, of course, runs counter to our current understanding of social media’s role in the professional sphere. We’ve been told that it’s important to tend to your so-called social media brand, as this provides you access to opportunities you might otherwise miss and supports the diverse contact network you need to get ahead. Many people in my generation fear that without a social media presence, they would be invisible to the job market.

In a recent New York magazine essay, Andrew Sullivan recalled when he started to feel obligated to update his blog every half-hour or so. It seemed as if everyone with a Facebook account and a smartphone now felt pressured to run their own high-stress, one-person media operation, and “the once-unimaginable pace of the professional blogger was now the default for everyone,” he wrote.

OMG, it is happening! What is it? My darling wife of 32 years gave me the green light today to permanently delete her FaceBook account. Why is this blowing my mind? I had enough of Facebook, and I dumped my account over 1 month ago.

Most people that I know who live on Facebook seem to be more depressed than those who avoid the service.